[Ugnet] RE: the 1966 crisis IV
contd. Elsewhere, the Lukiiko was also not inactive. After Obote suspended the Constitution on 24th February, it passed a resolution in a meeting on 26th February 1966 calling on all MPs representing Buganda in the National Assembly to inform the Lukiiko about the circumstances that led to the suspension of the Constitution. They also appealed to the people in Buganda to remain calm and peaceful. The Lukiiko sat again on 28th February and passed the following resolution: The Lukiiko meeting held on 28th February 1966, has most carefully examined the pronouncements made by the Prime Minister, Dr. Milton Obote, on 22nd February 1966, in which he assumed full powers of the Government of Uganda and on 24th February in which he suspended the Constitution. The Lukiiko unreservedly objects to these acts which are contrary to the provisions of the Constitution of Uganda which the Prime Minister swore to abide by on assuming office on 9th October 1962. The Lukiiko calls on the Prime Minister to restore the Constitution of Uganda forthwith. One day after the President published his two letters, the Lukiiko passed another resolution: The Great Lukiiko sitting today on 5th March 1966, strongly endorses and is in full agreement with the President's stand as expressed in His Excellency's three successive statements of 28th February, 3rd March and 4th, 1966, in which the President voices complete disagreement with and disapproval of the Prime Minister's action of assuming all powers and suspending the Uganda Constitution. The Lukiiko wishes to make it absolutely clear that it recognises the President of Uganda as the Head of State and the Vice-President, in his Office as the next in line to the President, as is provided for in the Constitution of Uganda. The Lukiiko also reaffirms its Resolution passed on 28th February 1966, in which it disagreed with the Prime Minister's action of taking it upon himself to suspend the Constitution of Uganda and appeals to all Members of the National Assembly to do all they can to get the National Assembly convened at the earliest possible date to resolve this burning issue. The Lukiiko passed yet another resolution on 12th March, the gist of which was that since the Prime Minister had failed to respond to the Lukiiko's earlier resolutions urging him to revoke his actions, they now regarded them and his future actions unconstitutional and would not be party to them. Obote responded by writing to the Katikkiro on 28th March in regard to the earlier Lukiiko resolutions. However, the Prime Minister merely reiterated what he had been saying before and failed to explain where he derived the authority to suspend the Constitution. The Lukiiko consequently passed another resolution on 13th April noting this fact and demanding that the Constitution be restored immediately. On 15th April, Obote surrounded the Parliament with troops and introduced without notice a new form of constitution which was put to vote that very day. It was adopted without debate and by MPs who had not even had a chance to see it. The Prime Minister then informed the MPs that they could find their copies in their pigeon-holes - hence the name 'pigeon-hole constitution'. The most significant changes to the Constitution was the position of the Kingdoms whose federal status was abolished while Obote increased his powers. The Lukiiko, in a sitting on the next day, considered these new developments carefully and maintained the position of it's earlier resolutions. On 18th April 1966 the Lukiiko issued a lengthy statement in which it stressed it's stand against the abrogation of the Constitution by the Prime Minister, it's belief in the federal system of governance and the universal human rights principles as laid down in the UN standards. The Lukiiko maintained that the Uganda Constitution of 1962 was the true basis for Uganda's unity and stability and strongly protested Obote's breach of the country's supreme law. After there had been no positive reaction from the Prime Minister and realizing that the basis upon which Uganda had become independent had been demolished, the Lukiiko passed a resolution on 19th May demanding the removal of the central government from the territory of Buganda by 30th May 1966. Obote reacted by declaring a state of emergency throughout Buganda on 23rd May. On 24th May, Obote ordered troops of the Uganda Army under the command of Idi Amin to storm the Kabaka's palace. Armed forces were deployed all over Kampala and in many parts of Buganda. Thousands of civilians were killed but Sir Edward managed to escape from the palace and into exile in the UK where he died in abject poverty in 1969. These then were the events leading to the request by the Lukiiko for the removal of the central government from Buganda territory. I hope that in future, before people like Ocaya p'Ocure simply make declarations that Mengo wanted
[Ugnet] Baghdad Recuits, UK eyes troop cuts
Baghdad recruits, UK eyes troop cuts By Alastair Macdonald Sun Jul 10, 5:48 AM ET BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed at least 16 people and wounded more than 40 at an Iraqi army recruiting center in western Baghdad on Sunday, hospital sources and police said. One Interior Ministry source put the death toll at 22. The attack, claimed by al Qaeda's Iraq wing in an Internet posting, was the bloodiest in a week that has seen something of a lull in mass killings. Some insurgents have turned on other targets, including, in al Qaeda's case, top foreign diplomats. A suicide car bomber also killed three civilians and wounded 10 near the local authority building in the ethnically tense northern oil city of Kirkuk on Sunday, police said. Four police were killed and three wounded further north near Mosul when a suicide bomber hit the motorcade of a district police chief. Baghdad's Muthanna airfield recruitment station, near the city center, has been struck before, part of a sustained campaign by Sunni Arab insurgents against the Shi'ite-led government's fledgling security forces. Those troops and police are a vital element in Washington's publicly proclaimed strategy of withdrawing its 140,000 or so troops over time and putting Iraqis in the front line of fighting the revolt among the once-dominant Sunni minority. The British government responded to a newspaper report that it and Washington had plans to halve their forces in Iraq by next year by saying this was just one scenario. A spokesman for the Pentagon, which has said the war in Iraq could last years, insisted it had no schedule for withdrawal. RECRUITMENT STRONG Thirty-nine people from Muthanna airfield were being treated at the nearby Yarmuk hospital, medical sources said, and 16 bodies had been received there. Several police sources said at least 42 people were wounded and that 18 people had been killed. The bomb went off as people were starting their working day in the capital. Recruitment to the police and army has surged in recent months, with thousands of unemployed young men willing to face great risks for the prospect of a good salary. Bombers have frequently mingled with them before blowing themselves up. Though the government and its U.S. sponsors insist that the new Iraqi army be drawn from across the country's complex ethnic and sectarian mix, disgruntled Sunni Arabs, who formed the elite of Saddam Hussein's military, accuse the government of forming a mostly Shi'ite and Kurdish force directed against them. Such tension has fueled suggestions that Iraq could descend into civil war in the absence of a major U.S. military presence. Passions flared in one mainly Shi'ite district of eastern Baghdad on Sunday as word spread of the overnight massacre of a local family of nine, who were shot in their beds. Police had no immediate leads but relatives leveled accusations at Sunnis. TROOPS DEBATE A document from Britain's Defense Ministry, leaked in London's Mail on Sunday newspaper, said the British and U.S. governments had plans to reduce their troop levels in Iraq by more than half by mid-2006, handing over to Iraqi forces. The memo, apparently written by Defense Secretary John Reid, said Britain would cut its force to 3,000 from 8,500 and Washington also had a plan to cut its forces to 66,000. "Emerging U.S. plans assume 14 out of 18 provinces could be handed over to Iraqi control by early 2006," the memo said. "There is, however, a debate between the Pentagon/Centcom, who favor a relatively bold reduction in force numbers and the multinational force in Iraq, whose approach is more cautious." President Bush has responded to opinion polls showing falling popularity for his Iraq policy by telling voters that U.S. forces will stand down "as Iraqis stand up." U.S. commanders on the ground say they are pleased with the progress Iraqi forces but caution that training will take time. Reid said in response to the report: "We have made it absolutely plain we will stay in Iraq for as long as is needed." In Washington, Pentagon spokesman Lieutenant-Commander Joe Carpenter, said: "I am not aware of any decided-upon timeline." (Additional reporting by Faris al-Mehdawi and Waleed Ibrahim in Baghdad, Heba Kandil in Dubai, Aref Mohammed in Kirkuk and Maher al-Thanoon in Mosul) __Do You Yahoo!?Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ Ugandanet mailing list Ugandanet@kym.net http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/ugandanet % UGANDANET is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/
[Ugnet] In Eastern Uganda....
You Move Kaguta as in chess!! UWA evicts 1,000 in Kapchorwa, says FDC David Mafabi KAPCHORWA The Uganda Wildlife Authority effort to restore the national park colonial boundaries has left over 1,211 people in Kapchorwa landless, the district chairman of the opposition Forum for Democratic Change, Mr Peter Kamuron, has said. Kamuron said the Benet of Kapchorwa have been rendered landless and are squatters on their own land, living in camps under poor sanitation. While government addresses the issue of internally displaced people living in camps in northern Uganda due to the Lords Resistance Army rebellion, there are over 1,000 Benet people of Kapchorwa displaced by UWA living in camps constructed on a rock who urgently need help, Kamuron said. He was addressing a political rally at Kapchorwa Boma Ground on July 2, shortly before the launch of FDC offices in Kapchorwa town.Kamuron is a former National Resistance Council Member for Kween County.He said when the government transferred the authority of Mt. Elgon National Park to UWA in 19 90/92, UWA made stringent rules that left many people landless.Tension between UWA and the local residents is surging as UWA is in the process of restoring the national park boundaries as they were during the colonial period. Kamuron told the FDC team led by the interim chairperson, Ms Salaamu Musumba, that the government had done nothing to end the Karimojong cattle rustling in which 1,700 people were killed and 34,000 displaced and over 8,000 head of cattle stolen in the last four years.He said Ngenge sub-county that lies between Nakapiripiriti and Sironko has been deserted because the armed Karimojong have turned it into a cattle rustling corridor. Musumba said since the Movement government has not given them security for 20 years, they should abandon it. A government that does not provide security for its citizens and does not bother about the living conditions of its people is as good as dead. This is the time the people of Kapchorwa should dam p the Movement government, Musumba said. Discover Yahoo! Get on-the-go sports scores, stock quotes, news & more. Check it out!___ Ugandanet mailing list Ugandanet@kym.net http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/ugandanet % UGANDANET is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/
[Ugnet] KASANGWAWO THIS OBOTE IS REALLY BAD
Mengo angry at govt over Kabakas land ROBERT MWANJE KAMPALA MENGO is angry at the central government over alleged allocation of tracts of the Kabaka's land in Kiboga to Rwandese refugees. The land, part of the famous 9,000 square miles, has also been allocated to senior UPDF officers, district councillors and officials. Kalangala RDC Katenda Luutu (formerly posted to Kiboga) confirms that Rwandese refugees have been allocated part of the Kabaka's land in Kiboga. "I witnessed this when I was serving as RDC in Kiboga. These people were ferried in buses and trucks in the night, I tried to fight it by arresting them but they had stronger forces behind," Luutu said recently. However, the district chairperson, Mr Siraje Kizito Nkugwa, distanced himself from accusations that he backed the move. He said: "I was not even around when the district council passed that resolution." Further information filtering out of Kiboga cites six current and retired officers who got part of the said land. They include: Lt. Gen. Elly Tumwine, Col. Paddy Kashumba, Col. Kizza Besigye, Col. Sam Kawagga, Col. Livingstone Kateregga. Officials in Kiboga District have also reportedly allocated themselves part of the said land.Other sources told Sunday Monitor that Kiboga district councillors and administration officials recently passed a resolution to sell more of the said land to interested developers. Buganda kingdom deputy Premier Kaaya Kavuma said Kiboga land belongs to the Kabaka but government decided to leave it under the custody of the district. "What is happening in Kiboga justifies our dissatisfaction. We have remained unhappy because that land has not yet been returned to us," he said, adding that Mengo would take legal action against the illegal tenants in Kiboga. The kingdom's Minister for Cabinet Affairs, Youth and Information, Mr Peter Mayiga, told Sunday Monitor that Mengo is unhappy that the Buganda Land Board lacks powers over the said 9,000 square miles. "Government instead gave the land to districts under the district land boards which have not done enough to protect it" he said. Mayiga said the kingdom was still studying the situation and a collective response would be announced soon. "Land is not like a fruit, which can be carried away," he said. ___ Ugandanet mailing list Ugandanet@kym.net http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/ugandanet % UGANDANET is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/
[Ugnet] yaobang is back!
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[Ugnet] Lost generation grows in Yoweri Museveni's Uganda
Lost Generation Grows in Uganda NPR-Jul 08 7:56 AMCommentator Leroy Sievers talks about what he saw when he documented the effect of Uganda's civil war on children in the northern part of the country. The documentary is part of a project for Human Rights Watch. Sell on Yahoo! Auctions - No fees. Bid on great items. Sell on Yahoo! Auctions - No fees. Bid on great items.___ Ugandanet mailing list Ugandanet@kym.net http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/ugandanet % UGANDANET is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/
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Land, gender and stalled DRB: An opportunity to get it right? KALUNDI SERUMAGA Africa and her poverty have become the subject of a global debate. Our wounds and our failures are being beamed all over the globe in the expectation that the citizens of the G8 world will do enough campaigning to encourage their governments to find a way of getting us out of the mess in which we have been wallowing for the last four decades (or possibly 500 years, if you take the really long view). One of the strong messages coming out of the aid-to-Africa debate is that we are expected to start doing things very differently from the way it is perceived we have been doing them in the past. Relations between men and women will have to change and move towards gender equality; stealing of public money will have to be curbed; there should be more open and more regular elections, etc, we all know the list. These are the necessary steps we are told to take to be able to move towards more sustainable development and a complete break with the culture of poverty. However, the English say that "necessity is the mother of invention", and the best evidence of their belief in that saying can be found in what they and their colleagues in the G8 club have done here in Africa. Not just now, but in the past that is still with us.The last two decades of the century before last found British society (as well as the rest of Europe's), very poor, sharply divided, crisis-ridden and constantly on the brink of revolt and revolution. POVERTY WAR: Leaders, taking part in the G8 summit in Gleneagles, Scotland, listen to British Prime Minister Tony Blair (C) on Thursday. AFP photos This was a direct result of their self-created industrial revolution that swept through Europe from the 1840s onwards, moving millions of people from an agricultural way of life into the mines, shipyards and factories, turning them into "wage-slaves", and destroying the remnants of village and community life that had managed to survive their feudal systems. The ordinary people reacted increasingly violently to this oppression and exploitation. The Irish writer Oscar Wilde observed that England was simply "the first and the most deeply penetrated of all the British colonies". As a way out of these problems, the Europeans found it necessary to find new territories to settle their growing populations and to create new markets for their goods as well as ever-cheaper labour to exploit. Cecil Rhodes, the British inventor of Rhodesia (now Zambia and Zimbabwe), explained it most clearly: "I was in the east end of London yesterday and attended a meeting of the unemployed. I listened to the wild speeches, which were just a cry for "bread, bread, bread", and on my way home pondered over the scene and I became more than ever convinced of the importance of imperialism. My cherished idea is a solution for the social problem, i.e. in order to save the 40m or so inhabitants of the United Kingdom from a bloody civil war, we colonial statesmen must acquire new lands to settle the surplus population, to provide new markets for the goods produced by them in the factories and mines. The Empire, as I have always said, is a bread-and-butter question. If you want to avoid civil war, you must become imperialists." This strategy enabled them to begin providing somewhat higher standards of living for their own people and even buy off a section of them, thus diminishing the threat of rebellion. BASICALLY AGRARAIN: A Kenyan farmer plucks ripe coffee berries. Nigerois boys walk by grazing cattle on their way to help parents working in a field. It was a strategy of survival, where the capitalist counties turned themselves into imperialist, empire-owning countries – the beginning of globalisation – and has so far worked quite well for them, providing a new lease of life on which they as the G8 are surviving up to today. Poverty questionThis is where Uganda, and other places like it, comes in. "Uganda" was invented in the 1880s as a necessary part of the solution to those British problems mentioned earlier, and politically imposed on our recent ancestors in 1894. From that day onwards, Uganda has been little more than a vast income-generating project for the powerful interests that drive the economies of the countries now known as the G8. Today, Uganda ranks as one of the countries with the poorest populations in the world. It is this poverty that the G8 countries say that they are committed to resolving, all by 2015. Our governments of the last decades have been supported and encouraged in carrying out policies that would, say the globally wise, make it easier to attract help, solve inequalities and create wealth. In its current form, the Domestic Relations Bill (DRB), which incidentally predates the G8 initiative by a few decades – is a piece of proposed legislation that would address one of the concerns: gender inequality. The laws regarding land use and management are also of
[Ugnet] It is a Hima Dynasty
It is a Hima dynasty I want to agree with the author of the article, Museveni's Dynasty Not Welcome Here (Daily Monitor, June 30). However, I want to correct the erroneous belief by the same author that the dynasty Museveni is bent on creating is a Nyankole dynasty. It is not. It is a Hima dynasty. I know many people outside what used to be called Ankole, before it was fragmented into different districts, cannot tell the difference between Bahima and Bairu (a misnomer surely!) Culturally, physically, socially, in other words, ethnically, Movement propaganda notwithstanding, the two groups of people are very different and do not interact socially except for appearances' sake because the Bairu are superior numerically and the Movement gurus want people to believe that they do not segregate their fellow countrymen. Just look at the top commanders in the army or key ministers and all the top managers in the country. It is therefore important that Ugandans and the world at large be aware of this. D. Turyamureeba-Mwene Byomumparo,Mbarara. __Do You Yahoo!?Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ Ugandanet mailing list Ugandanet@kym.net http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/ugandanet % UGANDANET is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/
[Ugnet] THESE WERE TONY BLAIR'S BOMBS
Lest We Forget; These Were Blair's Bombs By John Pilger t r u t h o u t | Perspective Sunday 10 July 2005 In all the coverage of last week's bombing of London, a basic truth is struggling to be heard. It is this: no one doubts the atrocious inhumanity of those who planted the bombs, but no one should also doubt that this has been coming since the day Tony Blair joined George Bush in their bloody invasion and occupation of Iraq. They are "Blair's bombs", and he ought not be allowed to evade culpability with yet another unctuous speech about "our way of life", which his own rapacious violence in other countries has despoiled. Indeed, the only reliable warning from British intelligence in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq was that which predicted a sharp increase in terrorism "with Britain and Britons a target". A House of Commons committee has since verified this warning. Had Blair heeded it instead of conspiring to deceive the nation that Iraq offered a threat the Londoners who died on Thursday might be alive today, along with tens of thousands of innocent Iraqis. Three weeks ago, a classified CIA report revealed that the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq had turned that country into a focal point of terrorism. None of the intelligence agencies regarded Iraq as such a flashpoint before the invasion, however tyrannical the regime. On the contrary, in 2003, the CIA reported that Iraq "exported no terrorist threat to his neighbours" and that Saddam Hussein was "implacably hostile to Al-Qaeda". Blair's and Bush's invasion changed all that. In invading a stricken and defenceless country at the heart of the Islamic and Arab world, their adventure became self-fulfilling; Blair's epic irresponsibility has brought the daily horrors of Iraq home to Britain. For more than a year, he has urged the British to "move on" from Iraq, and last week it seemed that his spinmeisters and good fortune had joined hands. The awarding of the 2012 Olympics to London created the fleeting illusion that all was well, regardless of messy events in a faraway country. Moreover, the G8 meeting in Scotland and its accompanying "Make Poverty History" campaign and circus of celebrities served as a temporary cover for what is arguably the greatest political scandal of modern times: an illegal, brutal and craven invasion conceived in lies and which, under the system of international law established at Nuremberg, represented a "paramount war crime". Over the past two weeks, the contrast between the coverage of the G8, its marches and pop concerts, and another "global" event has been striking. The World Tribunal on Iraq in Istanbul has had virtually no coverage, yet the evidence it has produced, the most damning to date, has been the silent spectre at the Geldoff extravaganzas. The tribunal is a serious international public inquiry into the invasion and occupation, the kind governments dare not hold. Its expert, eyewitness testimonies, said the author Arundathi Roy, a tribunal jury member, "demonstrate that even those of us who have tried to follow the war closely are not aware of a fraction of the horrors that have been unleashed in Iraq." The most shocking was given by Dahr Jamail, one of the best un-embedded reporters working in Iraq. He described how the hospitals of besieged Fallujah had been subjected to an American tactic of collective punishment, with US marines assaulting staff and stopping the wounded entering, and American snipers firing at the doors and windows, and medicines and emergency blood prevented from reaching them. Children, the elderly, were shot dead in front of their families, in cold blood. Imagine for a moment the same appalling state of affairs imposed on the London hospitals that received the victims of Thursday's bombing. Unimaginable? Well, it happens, in our name, regardless of whether the BBC reports it, which is rare. When will someone ask about this at one of the staged "press conferences" at which Blair is allowed to emote for the cameras stuff about "our values outlast [ing] theirs"? Silence is not journalism. In Fallujah, they know "our values" only too well. While the two men responsible for the carnage in Iraq, Bush and Blair, were side by side at Gleneagles, why wasn't the connection of their fraudulent "war on terror" made with the bombing in London? And when will someone in the political class say that Blair's smoke-and-mirrors "debt cancellation" at best amounts to less than the money the government spent in a week brutalising Iraq, where British and American violence is the cause of the doubling of child poverty and malnutrition since Saddam Hussein was overthrown (Unicef). The truth is that the debt relief the G8 is offering is lethal because its ruthless "conditionalities" of captive economies far outweigh any tenuous benefit. This was taboo during the G8 week, whose theme was not so much making poverty history as the
[Ugnet] WE KNOW WHO TO BLAME FOR LONDON
Face up to the truth We all know who was to blame for Thursday's murders... and it wasn't Bush and Blair Nick CohenSunday July 10, 2005The Observer The instinctive response of a significant portion of the rich world's intelligentsia to the murder of innocents on 11 September was anything but robust. A few, such as Karlheinz Stockhausen, were delighted. The destruction of the World Trade Centre was 'the greatest work of art imaginable for the whole cosmos,' declared the composer whose tin ear failed to catch the screams. Others saw it as a blow for justice rather than art. They persuaded themselves that al-Qaeda was made up of anti-imperialist insurgents who were avenging the wrongs of the poor. 'The great speculators wallow in an economy that every year kills tens of millions of people with poverty, so what is 20,000 dead in New York?' asked Dario Fo. Rosie Boycott seemed to agree. 'The West should take the blame for pushing people in Third World countries to the end of their tether,' she wrote. In these bleak days, it's worth remembering what was said after September 2001. A backward glance shows that before the war against the Taliban and long before the war against Saddam Hussein, there were many who had determined that 'we had it coming'. They had to convince themselves that Islamism was a Western creation: a comprehensible reaction to the International Monetary Fund or hanging chads in Florida or whatever else was agitating them, rather than an autonomous psychopathic force with reasons of its own. In the years since, this manic masochism has spread like bindweed and strangled leftish and much conservative thought. All kinds of hypocrisy remained unchallenged. In my world of liberal London, social success at the dinner table belonged to the man who could simultaneously maintain that we've got it coming but that nothing was going to come; that indiscriminate murder would be Tony Blair's fault but there wouldn't be indiscriminate murder because 'the threat' was a phantom menace invented by Blair to scare the cowed electorate into supporting him. I'd say the 'power of nightmares' side of that oxymoronic argument is too bloodied to be worth discussing this weekend and it's better to stick with the wider delusion. On Thursday, before the police had made one arrest, before one terrorist group had claimed responsibility, before one body had been carried from the wreckage, let alone been identified and allowed to rest in peace, cocksure voices filled with righteousness were proclaiming that the real murderers weren't the real murderers but the Prime Minister. I'm not thinking of George Galloway and the other saluters of Saddam, but of upright men and women who sat down to write letters to respectable newspapers within minutes of hearing the news. 'Hang your head in shame, Mr Blair. Better still, resign - and whoever takes over immediately withdraw all our forces from Iraq and Afghanistan,' wrote the Rev Mike Ketley, who is a vicar, for God's sake, but has no qualms about leaving Afghanistan to the Taliban and al-Qaeda or Iraq to the Baath party and al-Qaeda. 'Let's stop this murder and put on trial those criminals who are within our jurisdiction,' began Patrick Daly of south London in an apparently promising letter to the Independent. But, inevitably, he didn't mean the bombers. 'Let's start with the British government.' And so it went on. At no point did they grasp that Islamism was a reactionary movement as great as fascism, which had claimed millions of mainly Muslim lives in the Sudan, Iran, Algeria and Afghanistan and is claiming thousands in Iraq. As with fascism, it takes a resolute dunderheadedness to put all the responsibility on democratic governments for its existence. I feel the appeal, believe me. You are exasperated with the manifold faults of Tony Blair and George W Bush. Fighting your government is what you know how to do and what you want to do, and when you are confronted with totalitarian forces which are far worse than your government, the easy solution is to blame your government for them. But it's a parochial line of reasoning to suppose that all bad, or all good, comes from the West - and a racist one to boot. The unavoidable consequence is that you must refuse to support democrats, liberals, feminists and socialists in the Arab world and Iran who are the victims of Islamism in its Sunni and Shia guises because you are too compromised to condemn their persecutors. Islamism stops being an ideology intent on building an empire from Andalusia to Indonesia, destroying democracy and subjugating women and becomes, by the magic of parochial reasoning, a protest movement on a par with Make Poverty History or the TUC. Again, I understand the appeal. Whether you are brown or white, Muslim, Christian, Jew or atheist, it is uncomfortable to face the fact that there is a messianic cult of death which, like European fascism
[Ugnet] CLUES EMERGING IN LONDON BLAST
Clues emerging in London blasts July 9, 2005 BY PAISLEY DODDS ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON-- Police issued a stunning revision Sunday, shrinking the time between deadly explosions in the London Underground to just seconds, not 26 minutes as first reported, and saying the blasts were so powerful that none of the 49 known dead has yet been identified. Many bodies still lay buried in a rat-infested subway tunnel and frantic relatives begged for word about others still missing in the worst attack on London since World War II. Investigators also said the bombs that brought the British capital to a standstill Thursday were made of sophisticated high explosives. While it was possible the explosives were industrial or military materials obtained on the black market, investigators said it was too early to pinpoint where the terrorist bombers got the ingredients. Investigators declined to say if they were looking for specific suspects, but repeated their assertion that the bombings bore the signature of al-Qaida, the terror network blamed for the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States. The organization, headed by Osama bin Laden, has gained a reputation for sophisticated timing in its terror strikes. "It will be some time before this job is completed and it will be done with all the necessary dignity to the deceased," said Andy Trotter of the British Transport Police. Transit officials originally said the blasts occurred over a 26-minute span, but computer software that tracked train locations and electric circuits subsequently determined the first blast shattered the rush-hour commute at 8:50 a.m in Aldgate station, east London, with the next two erupting within 50 seconds. A fourth explosion tore through a double-decker bus near a subway entrance, killing 13 people, nearly an hour later. The attacks hit as President Bush and other G-8 leaders were holding a summit in Scotland and a day after London was named the host city for the 2012 Olympics. Deputy Assistant Police Commissioner Brian Paddick said the near-simultaneous nature of the attacks indicated timers-- not suicide bombers-- set off the explosions. He cautioned, however, that the investigation was in an early stage and nothing had been ruled out. As sobbing relatives held pictures and searched for missing loved ones at subway stations around the city, crews looked into reports of more than 1,000 people missing. While police said they expected the death toll to rise, a significant increase was not expected. Most of the missing-persons reports were not believed connected to the bombings. More than 20 people injured in the blasts remained in critical condition, and an unknown number of bodies remained in the Russell Square subway tunnel, where heat, dust and dangerous conditions slowed crews trying to reach the corpses trapped beneath the wreckage. Many London subway lines run more than 100 feet below ground. "It is a very harrowing task," said police detective Jim Dickie. "Most of the victims have suffered intensive trauma, and by that I mean there are body parts as well as torsos." Many of those who worked to recover bodies had done the same work during December's devastating tsunami in the Indian Ocean. Forensics experts were relying on fingerprints, dental records and DNA analysis to identify the victims. To help with DNA matches, police were asking for hair samples from those believed to be family members of some victims. Riders were returning to Underground stations, but warily and in smaller numbers. "There's just less people," student William Palmer, 23, said at the Chancery Lane subway stop. "Everyone's looking around a little bit more." The system was set for its first real test on Sunday when 20,000 cricket fans were expected to travel to the British capital for a match between England and Australia. When asked about the claim of responsibility by a group calling itself The Secret Organization of al-Qaida in Europe, Prime Minister Tony Blair told the BBC on Saturday it was "reasonably obvious that it comes from that type of quarter." Little was known about the group, but its name was attached to an Internet statement that claimed responsibility for the Madrid commuter train bombings that killed 191 people in March 2004, the last major terror attack in Europe. A second claim appeared on a Web site Saturday, this one signed Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigades, a group whose name invokes the alias of Mohammed Atef, bin Laden's top deputy who was killed in a U.S. airstrike in Afghanistan in November 2001. But terrorism experts said the group had no proven record of attacks, and noted it had claimed responsibility for events in which it was unlikely to have played any role-- the 2003 blackouts in the United States and London that resulted from technical problems, for example. At King's Cross station, near the site of the deadliest of the three subway bombings, service was partially
[Ugnet] [abujaNig] LONDON BOMBERS PROBABLY BRITISH
LONDON (AFP) - The former head of Scotland Yard warned that the London bombers were probably British and that there were many people in the country willing to take part in such atrocities. The terrorists at the centre of the London bombing this week will almost certainly be British born and bred, brought up here and totally aware of British life and values, Sir John Stevens told the News of the World. He said he had heard suggestions the bombers, who killed at least 50 people and injured some 700 in the Thursday morning rush hour, had come from abroad. But that's just dangerous wishful thinking, a damaging illusion, wrote Stevens. I'm afraid there's a sufficient number of people in this country willing to be Islamic terrorists that they don't have to be drafted in from abroad, he said Sunday. Stevens said he thought the likely suspects would be apparently-ordinary British citizens, young men conservatively and cleanly dressed and probably with some higher education. Highly computer literate, they will have used the internet to research explosives, chemicals and electronics, he went on. They are also willing to kill without mercy -- and to take a long time in their planning. They are painstaking, cautious, clever and very sophisticated. Stevens said that unlike other organised groups like the The Mulindwas Communication Group With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy Groupe de communication Mulindwas avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ** Share a Smile!!!* ++ Share at Least a Smile with someone new this Season of Love!! -- PJAdamz **Keep Hope Alive!!!* Internet Solution Learning Yoruba can register with Gotrain247 at www.gotrain247.com for a comprehensive lesson. From AfricaService. Let's Meet there, January!!! PJ Adamz Abuja Nigeria. Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/abujaNig/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ ___ Ugandanet mailing list Ugandanet@kym.net http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/ugandanet % UGANDANET is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/
[Ugnet] WAR ON TEROR IS STUPID
'It's Imperialism, Stupid!'By Professor Noam Chomsky, MIT 7-8-5 Fighting the so-called, phony and staged 'War On Terror' takes a back seat to Bush's #1 Objective: Controlling the center of the world's major energy resources and supplies: Iraq - with the world's 2nd largest known oil reserves! In his June 28 speech, President Bush asserted that the invasion of Iraq was undertaken as part of "a global war against terror" that the United States is waging. In reality, as anticipated, the INVASION INCREASED THE THREAT OF TERROR, perhaps significantly. Half-truths, MISinformation and HIDDEN AGENDAS have characterised official pronouncements about U.S. war motives in Iraq from the very beginning. The recent revelations about the rush to war in Iraq stand out all the more starkly amid the chaos that ravages the country and threatens the region and indeed the world. In 2002, the U.S. and United Kingdom proclaimed the right to invade Iraq because it was developing weapons of mass destruction. That was the "single question," as stressed constantly by Bush, Prime Minister Blair and associates. It was also THE SOLE BASIS on which Bush received congressional authorisation to resort to force. The answer to the "single question" was given shortly after the invasion, and reluctantly conceded: The WMD didn't exist. Scarcely missing a beat, the government and media doctrinal system concocted NEW pretexts and JUSTIFICATIONS FOR GOING TO WAR. "Americans do not like to think of themselves as aggressors, but raw aggression is what took place in Iraq," national security and intelligence analyst John Prados concluded after his careful, extensive review of the documentary record in his 2004 book "Hoodwinked." Prados describes the Bush "scheme to convince America and the world that war with Iraq was necessary and urgent" as "a case study in government dishonesty ... that required patently UNtrue public statements and egregious manipulation of intelligence." The Downing Street memo, published on May 1 in The Sunday Times of London, along with other newly available confidential documents, have DEEPENED THE RECORD OF DECEIT. The memo came from a meeting of Blair's war cabinet on July 23, 2002, in which Sir Richard Dearlove, head of British foreign intelligence, made the now-notorious assertion that "the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy" of going to war in Iraq. The memo also quotes British Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon as saying that "the U.S. had already begun 'spikes of activity' to put pressure on the regime." British journalist Michael Smith, who broke the story of the memo, has elaborated on its context and contents in subsequent articles. The "spikes of activity" apparently included a coalition air campaign meant to PROVOKE IRAQ INTO SOME ACT that could be portrayed as what the memo calls a "casus belli." Warplanes began bombing in southern Iraq in May 2002 " 10 tons that month, according to British government figures. A special "spike" started in late August (for a September total of 54.6 tons). "In other words, Bush and Blair began their war not in March 2003, as everyone believed, but at the end of August 2002, six weeks before Congress approved military action against Iraq," Smith wrote. The bombing was presented as defensive action to protect coalition planes in the no-fly zone. Iraq protested to the United Nations but didn't fall into the trap of retaliating. For U.S.-UK planners, INVADING IRAQ WAS A FAR HIGHER PRIORITY than the "war on terror." That much is revealed by the reports of their own intelligence agencies. On the eve of the allied invasion, a classified report by the National Intelligence Council, the intelligence community's center for strategic thinking, "predicted that an American-led invasion of Iraq would increase support for political Islam and WOULD RESULT IN A DEEPLY DIVIDED IRAQI SOCIETY prone to violent internal conflict," Douglas Jehl and David E. Sanger reported in The New York Times last September. In December 2004, Jehl reported a few weeks later, the NIC warned that "Iraq and other possible conflicts in the future could provide RECRUITMENT, training grounds, technical skills and language proficiency FOR A NEW CLASS OF TERRORISTS who are 'professionalised' and
[Ugnet] [abujaNig] TONY BLAIR ORDERED THE BOMBINGS
Tony Blair Ordered The London Bombings Former MI6 operative: The mainstream media ignores vital evidence of an inside job. Commentary By Michael James in Frankfurt, Germany 7-10-5 Rested after a good night's sleep in the Gleneagles Hotel, Tony Blair glanced nervously at his watch and wondered if the bombing of the London transport system would take place on schedule. London's Chief of Police, Sir Ian Blair, and MI5 boss, Eliza Manningham-Buller, had promised to keep him firmly in the loop; and Jack Straw had advised him that the Israelis had been placated. Blair caught a glimpse of himself in the dresser and checked his profile. Carole, his personal image advisor, had told him to soften the pronounced jaw when seated next to Bush. You're overdoing the Winston thing, she had said pointedly. Killing people was yesterday; starving Africans and rainforests is now the thing. She was wrong about the killing, of course. The good Miz Caplin would never understand his rites of passage, at least not in the Brethren's sense of the term. And yet something was still bothering him. The intelligence services had been caught off balance by Mossad's unwelcome intrusion into matters they considered a strictly British affair. Having the headline Israel Warned Blair Two Days Before Attack splashed across the front pages of an otherwise complicit print media was something to be avoided at all costs. Binyamin Netanyahu would go ahead with preparations for his press conference and allow himself to be advised by Scotland Yard shortly after the first blast. If MI5 were to dally in their attacks on commuters, he would have no choice but to claim that Scotland Yard had warned him prior to the event, and the Blair government would have to hope that the British people would not notice the obvious irregularity. Back in London, Netanyahu dropped security protocol and looked cautiously out of his hotel window. Reflecting on his long years of experience in helping to finance and organise terror attacks on Israeli citizens to provoke world outrage against the rightful inhabitants of his stolen country, he knew that errors would be made and officials would let their tongues slip when the heat was on. Press reports would have to be altered at short notice and the volume turned up loud until all the world would hear nothing but al Qaeda, alQaeda, al Qaeda. It had worked before and it would work again. The Goyim, whether American or British, would once more be led by the nose to believe the official version of events. Binyamin snickered inwardly at Eliza Manningham-Buller's chosen title for the fictitious terror group. The nonsensical Secret Group of the al Qaeda Organisation in Europe suggested to him that Manningham-Buller had probably spent her childhood reading nothing other than Enid Blyton's Famous Five and Secret Seven adventure books. Yes, that was it, the Secret Seven on the seventh of July. How apt. How very Qabalah. Whatever, the British had insisted on bombing close to the venue at which he had been billed to deliver an important seminar, if only to give the attacks, in the words of an MI6 liason officer, a real whiff of al Qaeda. The Liverpool Street bombing would even lift the hotel in which former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani was staying. The Prime Minister of Ontario, Dalton McGuinty, was also close to the epicentre. The British government and their Freemason paymasters in the City of London were sure sending a message to the Americans and Canadians: We're back in control of the terror game now. This time, the British Crown is playing for keeps. But the clock was ticking, and still no word. Hashem, Netanyahu growled softly, deliver us from the ignorant Goyim and their slow-witted ways. At 8.40 am, Mad Dog Spencer stepped into the third carriage of a subway train bound for Aldgate and Liverpool Street Stations. He knew he would have very little time to leave the package behind in a shabby plastic bag and put sufficient distance between himself and the ten pounds of high explosives strapped to a timer. The latex treatment, which had given him the facial appearance of a down-and-out, was beginning to itch. Such inconveniences would have meant nothing to him back in the days when working in Kabul with his old MI6 friend, Clive Newell. It was Newell who had introduced him to the legendary CIA asset, Osama bin Laden, then known by his American codename Tim Osman. Those were the days: fighting the Soviets back-to-back with artificial Islamic terror groups financed out of London, courtesy of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International. Spencer remembered Clive fawning over Osama as our baby, and his raging against the CIA's unwarranted incursions on the British Crown's right to use the fledgling al Qaeda gang as it saw fit.
Re: [Ugnet] KASANGWAWO THIS OBOTE IS REALLY BAD
All this is Obote's fault. Afterall Mutesa is already 36 years dead. KipenjiEdward Mulindwa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mengo angry at govt over Kabakas land ROBERT MWANJE KAMPALA MENGO is angry at the central government over alleged allocation of tracts of the Kabaka's land in Kiboga to Rwandese refugees. The land, part of the famous 9,000 square miles, has also been allocated to senior UPDF officers, district councillors and officials. Kalangala RDC Katenda Luutu (formerly posted to Kiboga) confirms that Rwandese refugees have been allocated part of the Kabaka's land in Kiboga. "I witnessed this when I was serving as RDC in Kiboga. These people were ferried in buses and trucks in the night, I tried to fight it by arresting them but they had stronger forces behind," Luutu said recently. However, the district chairperson, Mr Siraje Kizito Nkugwa, distanced himself from accusations that he backed the move. He said: "I was not even around when the district council passed that resolution." Further information filtering out of Kiboga cites six current and retired officers who got part of the said land. They include: Lt. Gen. Elly Tumwine, Col. Paddy Kashumba, Col. Kizza Besigye, Col. Sam Kawagga, Col. Livingstone Kateregga. Officials in Kiboga District have also reportedly allocated themselves part of the said land.Other sources told Sunday Monitor that Kiboga district councillors and administration officials recently passed a resolution to sell more of the said land to interested developers. Buganda kingdom deputy Premier Kaaya Kavuma said Kiboga land belongs to the Kabaka but government decided to leave it under the custody of the district. "What is happening in Kiboga justifies our dissatisfaction. We have remained unhappy because that land has not yet been returned to us," he said, adding that Mengo would take legal action against the illegal tenants in Kiboga. The kingdom's Minister for Cabinet Affairs, Youth and Information, Mr Peter Mayiga, told Sunday Monitor that Mengo is unhappy that the Buganda Land Board lacks powers over the said 9,000 square miles. "Government instead gave the land to districts under the district land boards which have not done enough to protect it" he said. Mayiga said the kingdom was still studying the situation and a collective response would be announced soon. "Land is not like a fruit, which can be carried away," he said.___Ugandanet mailing listUgandanet@kym.nethttp://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/ugandanet% UGANDANET is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos. Get Yahoo! Photos___ Ugandanet mailing list Ugandanet@kym.net http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/ugandanet % UGANDANET is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/
[Ugnet] [abujaNig] Re: [Mwananchi] RE: Here Comes TROUBLE: The CUTLASS Heads To Scotland (G-8 Summit)
You know some times I just wonder the mechanism of a white populace. Iran has been a problem to all the west, we have nuclear research that we wanted to get involved in and to put an end. The Europeans have tried to talk to Iran, the Americans have had their fingers itching for bombs to fall on Iran. As silliness comes Iran had an election and the enemy of the Americans was not elected. George Bush has moved very fast to call him a terrorist. Zimbabweans watch out Pat Anderson has an agenda this is not about shack houses this is an agenda. The problem with her agenda is that even if Sadam Hussein left power, Iraq had to be attacked for it is an agenda. May all The Zimbabweans who will be killed under her agenda rest in peace. Em Toronto The Mulindwas Communication Group With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy Groupe de communication Mulindwas avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie - Original Message - From: Dr. Valentine Ojo To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: TalkNigeria ; Pan-Africanist Forum ; Africare-Newpublications ; AbujaNig ; Naijanet Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2005 6:18 PM Subject: [Mwananchi] RE: Here Comes TROUBLE: The CUTLASS Heads To Scotland (G-8 Summit) Why him? Who else can they invite? Who else still serves white interests in Africa, and still calls himself an African intellectual? The Jonas Savinmbis, the Moise Tshombes, the Mobutu Sese Seko, the Tsvangarai (or that clown in Zimbabwe) of Africa are now a dying breed.you have to look hard to find one. And they found him.today before the US senate, tomorrow, before an Australian, British, or Canadian Commission, and now before a Commission on the repartitioning of Africa in the 2005. Remember the Germans under Bismarck, hosted the first portioning conference. Only difference this time, a renegade African intellectual is being invited as observer - how white nations carve up black nations to satisfy their greed for Africa's resources. Val Ojo -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of tnygb Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2005 12:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Mwananchi] Re: Here Comes TROUBLE: The CUTLASS Heads To Scotland (G-8 Summit) Why you? Ever thought about that? Tony Ogbo --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], George Ayittey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Folks, Your angry CUTLASS has been invited by the German Marshall Fund and the Partnership to End Hunger and Poverty in Africa to participate in a Conference in Edinburgh. The invitation is pasted below. Airfare and hotel are all taken care of by them. This Conference is a pre-up for the G-8 Summit that begins on July 8 in Scotland. Other invited guests include Paul Wolfowitz, the new head of the World Bank, and the presidents of Ethiopia, Ghana, Mozambique, Nigeria, and Senegal. And the CUTLASS will be there among them. African leaders want a Marshall Aid Plan for Africa and the German Marshall Fund is sending the CUTLASS to meet them? You wait. Pray that the CUTLASS does not meet any coconut bobbing up and down the bogs of Scotland or some dark alley. Chei! It will be butubutu brutal. This whole brouhaha over debt relief and increased aid to Africa is so humiliating and sickening. It perpetuates racist notions about Africa: That Africa is so hopelessly incapable of governing itself that its salvation now rests on rock concerts attended by rich white kids. Every 10 years, a major international campaign is launched to help save Africa: 1985 (Live Aid), 1996 (UN Special Initiative for Africa, and now (2005). In 1985, 20 years ago, Live Aid was organized by rock artists to raise $100 million to save famine victims in Ethiopia. What happened to the money and how come Ethiopia is still starving? Say what you want about historical wrongs and the moral obligation of the rich nations to help but the spectacle of African leaders, groveling and prostrating themselves the West to beg, beg, and beg for aid reinforces racist notions about Sambo. Do you see Asians and Latin Americans humiliating themselves with such begging? Yet, Africa, with its immense mineral wealth, can't even feed itself. What resources does Singapore, Taiwan or Japan have? Africa has been reduced to a pauper in rags in the midst of stunning wealth by a leadership that lacks even the most elementary understanding of how to govern and develop a country. Even the traditional rulers know how to better run their kingdoms and states. Development to modern and educated African leaders means developing their pockets and seeking foreign investment means investing the loot in a foreign country. Why is Nigeria, with all its oil wealth, still poor? What happened to the over $400 billion in oil revenue that
[Ugnet] [abujaNig] Re: [panafricanistforum] RE: Here Comes TROUBLE: The CUTLASS Heads To Scotland (G-8 Summit)
It is the head line of Mwananchi even Chifu Wa Malindi used it. Soon we are going to have a side on Mwananchi site to show where we have been called. Just watch. Em Toronto The Mulindwas Communication Group With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy Groupe de communication Mulindwas avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie - Original Message - From: Dr. Valentine Ojo To: George Ayittey Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; TalkNigeria ; Pan-Africanist Forum ; Africare-Newpublications ; AbujaNig ; Naijanet Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2005 10:03 PM Subject: [panafricanistforum] RE: Here Comes TROUBLE: The CUTLASS Heads To Scotland (G-8 Summit) I knew that was coming... -Original Message- From: George Ayittey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2005 9:46 PM To: Dr. Valentine Ojo Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; TalkNigeria; Pan-Africanist Forum; Africare-Newpublications; AbujaNig; Naijanet Subject: Re: [Naijanet] RE: Here Comes TROUBLE: The CUTLASS Heads To Scotland (G-8 Summit) And Val, Who invites you anywhere? Ghaddafi? Babangida? Castro? Osama bin Laden? If someone invites you, we can at least say that your VIEWPOINT is receiving recognition. But NOBODY invites you and you are stuck in an intellectual swamp like a hippo. Say what you want about Ayittey but at least Ayittey gets around and does something. And what do you do? NOTHING apart from posting one-liners. Totally useless to Africa. George Ayittey, Washington, DC Dr. Valentine Ojo wrote: The Conference at Edinburgh is that of African nations meeting in Britain. Did you not realize that? Our Georgie Boy is appearing before his African peers - pardon the slip - before his masters and sponsors, to plead Africa's cause. Great, what! Val Ojo -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Edward Mulindwa Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2005 9:40 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Mwananchi] Re: Here Comes TROUBLE: The CUTLASS Heads To Scotland (G-8 Summit) Pat Is Ayittey going to Edinburgh to inform Africans how their problem is caused by the same, and how they have to solve it them selves? Em Em Toronto The Mulindwas Communication Group With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy Groupe de communication Mulindwas avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie - Original Message - From: paanderson2003 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2005 8:09 AM Subject: [Mwananchi] Re: Here Comes TROUBLE: The CUTLASS Heads To Scotland (G-8 Summit) George, Great stuff! I`m sure you will do a great job as always. If you get the chance, bend a few ears, African and European, plus US and anybody else who is listening! Have a great trip, take an umbrella (see forecast link) at least it won`t be too hot (weather) but will still be pleasant. Watch out for the protestors in Edinburgh, also, I`ve just checked the TV guide for next week, so if you have any leisure time, there is a feast of programmes on Africa to see, mainly on BBC but on other channels. By the way, the rock concerts are supposed to be about raising awareness. Bon Voyage! Pat. --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], George Ayittey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Folks, Your angry CUTLASS has been invited by the German Marshall Fund and the Partnership to End Hunger and Poverty in Africa to participate in a Conference in Edinburgh. The invitation is pasted below. Airfare and hotel are all taken care of by them. This Conference is a pre-up for the G-8 Summit that begins on July 8 in Scotland. Other invited guests include Paul Wolfowitz, the new head of the World Bank, and the presidents of Ethiopia, Ghana, Mozambique, Nigeria, and Senegal. And the CUTLASS will be there among them. African leaders want a Marshall Aid Plan for Africa and the German Marshall Fund is sending the CUTLASS to meet them? You wait. Pray that the CUTLASS does not meet any coconut bobbing up and down the bogs of Scotland or some dark alley. Chei! It will be butubutu brutal. This whole brouhaha over debt relief and increased aid to Africa is so humiliating and sickening. It perpetuates racist notions about Africa: That Africa is so hopelessly incapable of governing itself that its salvation now rests on rock concerts attended by rich white kids. Every 10 years, a major international campaign is launched to help save Africa: 1985 (Live Aid), 1996 (UN Special Initiative for Africa, and now (2005). In 1985, 20 years ago, Live Aid was organized by rock artists to raise $100 million to save famine victims in Ethiopia.
[Ugnet] WHY IS GUANTANAMO OPEN?
55 Nations: US Should Close Guantanamo PrisonAljazeera.net7-5-5 On the day America marked its 229th birthday, lawmakers from 55 countries received a report criticising the handling of prisoners at the U.S. military base at Guantanamo and called for its closure. Though the 15-page report to members of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe's Parliamentary Assembly absolved the U.S. of torture and abuse claims at the detention facility, it argued that the facility is ineffective in fighting the "war on terrorism" and damaged the U.S. reputation, particularly among democratic countries. "We know it is not possible for closure in two weeks... but a one- or two-year calendar should be drafted for closure of this jail," said the report's author, Anne-Marie Lizin, speaker of the Senate in Belgium and executive secretary of the assembly's Committee on Democracy, Human Rights and Humanitarian Questions. U.S. Representative Alcee Hastings, who is also the president of the Parliamentary Assembly, declined a request for an American reply to the report but noted that "there is robust debate in the United States about Guantanamo." The report will contribute to that discussion, he said. Hastings and Representative Steny Hoyer called the report "balanced," and said they wanted further U.S. hearings on the facility. According to Hastings, although he did not endorse the call for closing the facility, "I have strong feelings about the holding of people without trial." The Bush administration has consistently refused to close the Guantanamo center claiming it is producing valuable intelligence in the "war against terrorism". The report found that the transfer of prisoners to Guantanamo "at the time was justified by reasons of security," it added that the "exceptional procedures set up did not always function in an appropriate manner." Instead, the report suggests that imprisonment has furthered "a deep hatred of the United States" in prisoners who already held strong religious and political beliefs contrary to American interests. It also argues that many of those detained at Guantanamo "are there by mistake or are only second-rate combatants who know very little about theplots of Al-Qaeda leaders." Although Lizin said the U.S. military refused several requests for assembly members to inspect the facility, the report indicates there was sufficient information from members of Congress, the Pentagon and observers who have visited the prison to reach conclusions and make recommendations. It concludes that, although interrogation techniques used on prisoners at Guantanamo "are hard..., they do not constitute acts that would be considered torture." The report predicts that leaving the Guantanamo facility open "will become completely counter-productive," also warning that real or supposed abuses could seriously affect the treatment of American military personnel in future conflicts. Gitmo shutdown protests Feminist author Gloria Steinem on Monday joined about 200 protesters to demand the closure of Gitmo, saying holding prisoners indefinitely without charging them violates the values upon which the United States was founded. Steinem compared Guantanamo to the kind of autocratic rule early colonists were trying to flee from. "They came to escape the very things - detention without due process, bias, a religious government ... that we protest today," Steinem said. Some detainees have been held at the camp in Cuba for more than three years without being charged. The U.S. government contends the prisoners are "enemy combatants" and are not entitled to constitutional protections. Rachel Meeropol, a lawyer with the Center for Constitutional Rights that has filed lawsuits in federal court challenging the detentions, also addressed the crowd. The Bush administration "has claimed the power to kidnap men anywhere in the world and hold them, interrogate them, detain them without any process of law," said Meeropol, the granddaughter of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were executed in 1953 after being convicted of conspiring to commit espionage for the Soviet
[Ugnet] PM of Cape Verde to visit the US
(This press release is courtesy of Br. Manu Salah, he also recommends the following url for our consideration Cabo Verde Online - Amilcar Cabral, Pereira, Pires, Veiga and Mascarenhas - legends leve forever ... if you have any specific questions, please contact our brother directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) For Immediate Release: July 7, 2005 For More Information, contact: Bernadette Coelho Public Information Officer (508) 979-1414 [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAYOR KALISZ TO WELCOME PRIME MINISTER OF CAPE VERDE TO NEW BEDFORD (New Bedford) – Mayor Frederick M. Kalisz, Jr. will welcome the Prime Minster of the Republic of Cape Verde to New Bedford next week. His Excellency José Maria Pereira Neves and the government delegation accompanying him will be in New Bedford on Monday, July 11th, as part of a ten-day visit to the United States, which begins tomorrow. Mayor Kalisz said, “Once again, we are extremely proud and honored to welcome Prime Minister Neves to New Bedford, a city rich in Cape Verdean heritage and culture. The contributions made to the city of New Bedford by those of Cape Verdean heritage continue to strengthen the fabric of our community.” “This visit gives the Cape Verdean American community a wonderful opportunity to affirm its interest in strengthening those existing ties with Cape Verde and to convey their views directly to Prime Minister Neves and members of his cabinet,” said Adonis Ferreira, the city’s Director of Cultural Affairs. The visit of Prime Minister Neves will include a community meeting at the UMASS Star Store building from 11 a.m. to noon, a flag raising ceremony at City Hall at 1:00 p.m., and visits to the Ernestina, the New Cape Verdean Band Club, the Bisca Club and the Cape Verdean American Veterans Association. The community meeting and flag raising are open to the public. On July 13th and 14th the Prime Minister will visit Washington, DC to promote the signed historic Millennium Challenge Account Compact between the governments of Cape Verde and the United States. He will meet with federal officials and will participate in a reception offered by the Cape Verde Embassy welcoming the Diplomatic Corps, U.S. Government Officials and the Cape Verdean Community of the Greater Washington DC Metropolitan area in honor of the 30th anniversary of the Independence of Cape Verde. Prime Minister Neves last visited New Bedford in September of 2003. ___ Ugandanet mailing list Ugandanet@kym.net http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/ugandanet % UGANDANET is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/
[Ugnet] [abujaNig] NETENYAHU WARNED BEFORE THE LONDON ATTACKS?
Explosions In London - Who Stands To Gain? Israel Warned, Cover-up In Progress Prisonplanet | July 07 2005 BREAKING: Scrambled cover-up to try and change prior knowledge story. Original reports stated that Binyamin Netanyahu was warned BEFORE the first blast, now all the Associated Press reports are being changed to say he was warned AFTER the first blast, for example this article. The article linked below that we saved in our own format (and the website that carried it has strangely since crashed) said that Netanyahu was warned before the first blast. Israel are now denying they got a warning. BREAKING: Scotland Yard says it got a warning before the attack and told Israel. The Israeli Embassy in London was notified in advance, resulting in Finance Minister Binyamin Netanyahu remaining in his hotel room rather than make his way to the hotel adjacent to the site of the first explosion, a Liverpool Street train station, where he was to address and economic summit. Full article here. The warning contradicts the fact that the original explanation of a power surge went out for an hour or more. They knew it was an attack but put out a false explanation. Plus why did Netanyahu get a warning and the victims didn't? We have been told that the events unfolding today were inevitable, London's transport network has been hit with multiple explosions. Both the Underground and Buses have been hit. Events are still unfolding. We predicted this would happen over a year ago after analyzing the propaganda and fearmongering that was being ratcheted up to the extreme in London. Paul Joseph Watson has predicted these events as imminent several times on The Alex Jones Show in recent months. Tony Blair is not in London but safely tucked up in Scotland with 7 other World Leaders including President Bush. The political eyes of the world are on Britain this week. The Mayor of London Ken Livingstone is in Singapore where the IOC has just awarded the Olympic Games to London, he is rushing back to the city. Just like the events of 9/11, ask yourself, who stands to gain from this? Could this have been organized by any group other than one who has direct unlimited access to all areas of London's transport grid at all times? The similarities with the Madrid bombing of 3/11/04, which we have persistently highlighted as an inside intelligence operation, are stark with bombs on separate trains set off within minutes of each other as the trains neared the stations. The so called perpetrators were quickly linked to an Al Qaeda cell in Europe but later as we reported were linked to the Spanish Security service. They then mysteriously Killed themselves as this information was seeping out. It then became apparent that Spain's government was using the bombings for its own gains and many went to the streets in Spain to declare they knew that their own government was behind the attacks. Further Intelligence was withheld by the government, we expect the same will happen in Britain after today's attacks. This has MI5 written all over it. Just watch that national ID card legislation sail through. Only 15% of the country supported the government after the last election, this will ensure total fealty to a smarmy Blair and whatever he wants to do. Ken Livingstone and the opposition parties will now have no grounds to reject ID card legislation, especially with the Olympics coming to London in 2012. The police state measures they'll get out of this will be overlaid onto all forms of transport. In fact, you won't be able to travel without the ID card. Although MI5 operations are normally more sophisticated than things like 9/11, in that the evidence linking it to the government is more carefully covered, just watch for the evidence of inside involvement to trickle out. MI5 have been caught involved in IRA bombings multiple times over. Alex has said over and over that as attacks on different sections of the transportation grid occur they are going to have police state setup in the areas. Now it will be on the buses, subways etc. FLASHBACK: Schumer Wants Airport Screening Technology in Malls The military-industrial complex has the motive in this latest atrocity. Every major western government, including the British, has been caught red-handed carrying out bombings against their own people and blaming it on external enemies. It is mainstream news in Spain that the government was involved in the 3/11 bombing. The London 7/7 bombings are nothing different. Government ghouls are now all over television spreading the fear to encourage the people to submit to the war on terror. Support our work, spread the word, expose who is gaining power from terrorism, or our freedoms will be lost. Hours after the attacks the media is still not providing extensive coverage. We would expect to see hundreds of eyewitness accounts and footage of the train stations. Independent London reporter Simon
[Ugnet] [abujaNig] Re: [Mwananchi] RE: What about invitations to Africa, George?
Val Ojjo Odwe is a Ugandan and the reason of his reasoning is not a request but a demand. We are not silly we do not want to be fade by ridiculous Oxfam, we need to be left alone. And we will be left alone calmly or we will do it the Amin way, for you know what? Even to today the Pat Anderson's types that screwed the innocent Masais in Kenya have never faced a judge. Val Ojjo go to UK and rape a White girl and see if it will take this kind of ages for you to face the judge. That is the difference between us and Pat Anderson. Em Toronto The Mulindwas Communication Group With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy Groupe de communication Mulindwas avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie - Original Message - From: Dr. Valentine Ojo To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: TalkNigeria ; Pan-Africanist Forum ; Naijanet ; Africare-Newpublications ; AbujaNig Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 8:18 PM Subject: [Mwananchi] RE: What about invitations to Africa, George? With this in mind the culprits of this borrowed pride sale their views with very little if at all any input from the masses they claim to speak for. They reduce fellow Africans they view as less educated than themselves to rubber stamps than participants in the struggle. They hold nothing but contempt for any opposing views. More so if such is a fellow African. No wonder why most of our next generation innocently shows more pride in anything but truly who they're. We have our work cut out for those of us who see this. - joseph odwe Fellow Africans: This is a MUST SHARE! Please read rest of Odwe's views for yourself, and take a stand. Val Ojo -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of joseph odwe Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 5:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Mwananchi] What about invitations to Africa, George? Brother Kapinga The answer is simple. I had adressed this in my lost piece titled The effects of a borrowed pride to Africa. The reason why our educated guru's can not take pride in meeting fellow African is because of: (1) They belief above anyone else from on the land. Thus percieve themsleves justified to tell their views down, also always right in their held view. The superiority syndrome passed unto such individuals through years of subtly veiled abuses especialy in the streets of the white man's corridors of so called literacy has knawed heavilly on such individual's mental heritage leaving it so shaky to serve as a refill foundation on which to view issues with new enlightened capacity. With this problem embeded into one's being self belitlings such as I can't aspire to lead any African nation thus self propelling above Africa' also reducing others to coconut head, door mart, stupid, prosititute etc, can not be suprising any more. (2) This syndrome like any other affects how one views and or interacts with others. When one sees past the spin doctorings the fact is for this breed un like the rare ones such Nkame Nkrumah Mzee Jomo Kenyata of our world (whose heritage foundation remained the same after the so called formal education experince) do not expect anything brainy from fellow black. Thus assuming well qualified by their educational or any other social status to articulate what Africa needs or wants upon the masses. With this in mind the culprits of this borrowed pride sale their views with very little if at all any input from the masses they claim to speak for. They reduce fellow Africans they view as less educated or than themselves to ruber stamps than participants in the struggle. They hold nothing but contempt for any opposing views. More so if such is a fellow African. This reality sometimes rares out incase a victim of such to take a princpled stand against the culprit as was the recent example between sister Everlyn and brother Ayittey. Just imagine the double victimization this would have been if this time he didn't pick on the wrong unrerated lioness. Can you imagine with this mentality if Ayitteyi was to be your boss somewhere in the motherland and you happen to to hold any degree from U of Washington D.C or similar? How about for you a naturally born intelligent elder somewhere in Africa who can't or hardly put together a sentance in English would the proffesor even talk to you. This reminds me of my childhood experience where the elites sometimes from the same familly if not clan chose to communicate in the master's language over their own. This goes on all over the world amongst Africans as we speak.This syndrome of a borrowed pride is slowly victimising our unsuspecting next generation's perceptions on the role this englisation if I may on our being. Once again I care less about the spinning ratiolization one may feel tempted to apply on this, the fact remains just that. No wonder why most of our next generation
[Ugnet] [abujaNig] Re: [Mwananchi] Four London Blasts Kill 40, Injure 300
James On all Iraqus the British have blown up in Iraq have you ever posted a condolence here? Sorry I forgot The British are the civilized and the Iraqis are the uncivilized. Sorry consider my question withdrawn. Em Toronto The Mulindwas Communication Group With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy Groupe de communication Mulindwas avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie - Original Message - From: James Ololo To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; AbujaNig ; Naijanet ; Pan-Africanist Forum ; TalkNigeria Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 11:44 AM Subject: [Mwananchi] Four London Blasts Kill 40, Injure 300 Dea Mwananchi, On behalf of my family and I, may the victims, their families and friends accept our sincere sympathy on this dark day in London. Again, we have seen how innocent civilians are victimized and made to suffer for a crime they are not part of. At this difficult moment, I strongly stand behind Londoners and the people of Great Britain as they grief the loss of lives of innocent victims who will be not be going back to their loved ones and homes tonight. Peace, -James --- Dr. Valentine Ojo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Four London Blasts Kill 40, Injure 300 July 07, 2005 9:31 AM EDT LONDON - Four blasts rocked the London subway and tore open a packed double-decker bus during the morning rush hour Thursday, sending bloodied victims fleeing after what a shaken Prime Minister Tony Blair called barbaric terrorist attacks. Two U.S. law enforcement officials said at least 40 people were killed and London hospitals reported more than 350 wounded. A senior police official confirmed at least 33 deaths killed in the subway blasts. Blair said the terrorist attacks were clearly designed to coincide with the G-8 summit opening in Gleneagles, Scotland. They also came a day after London won the bid to host the 2012 Olympics. A group calling itself The Secret Organization of al-Qaida in Europe claimed responsibility. The explosions hit three subway stations and a double-decker bus in rapid succession between 8:30 and 9:30 a.m. local time. Implementing an emergency plan, authorities immediately shut down the subway and bus lines that log 8.4 million passenger trips every weekday. It brought the city's transportation system to a halt. It was chaos, said Gary Lewis, 32, who was evacuated from a subway train at King's Cross station. The one haunting image was someone whose face was totally black and pouring with blood. Blair, flanked by fellow G-8 leaders, including President Bush, said: We shall prevail and they shall not. Earlier, a shaken Blair said, Whatever they do, it is our determination that they will never succeed in destroying what we hold dear in this country and in other civilized nations throughout the world. He departed by helicopter back to London, but said the meeting of the world leaders would continue. The G-8 summit's agenda got sidetracked, however, and they decided to delay declarations on climate change and the global economy. Bush warned Americans to be extra vigilant as they head to work after the deadly explosions in London. He said he had conferred with federal homeland security officials back in Washington. Much of Europe also went on alert. Italy's airports raised alert levels to a maximum. The Czech Republic, Hungary, Russia, the Netherlands, France and Spain also were among those announcing beefed-up security at shopping centers, airports, railways and subways. The U.N. Security Council was to meet later Thursday to address the London attacks and was expected to pass a resolution condemning the blasts, an official said. A group calling itself The Secret Organization of al-Qaida in Europe posted a claim of responsibility, saying the blasts were in retaliation for Britain's involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan. The statement also threatened attacks in Italy and Denmark. It was published on a Web site popular with Islamic militants, according to Elaph, a secular Arabic-language news Web site, and Der Spiegel magazine in Berlin, which published the text on their Web sites. The authenticity of the statement could not be immediately confirmed, but terrorism experts said the coordinated explosions had the trademarks of the al-Qaida network. This is clearly an al-Qaida style attack. It was well-coordinated, it was timed for a political event and it was a multiple attack on a transportation system at rush hour, said Lawrence Freedman, professor of war studies at King's College in London. European stocks dropped sharply after the blasts, with exchanges in London, Paris and Germany all
[Ugnet] [abujaNig] Re: [Mwananchi] RE: Four London Blasts Kill 40, Injure 300
Val Ojjo Thank you very much for your thoughtful posting, it just baffles me when we keep on blowing up people in thousands and then we become so sentimental when a mere 30 die, that just baffles me. Em Toronto The Mulindwas Communication Group With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy Groupe de communication Mulindwas avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie - Original Message - From: Dr. Valentine Ojo To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; AbujaNig ; Naijanet ; Pan-Africanist Forum Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 12:36 PM Subject: [Mwananchi] RE: Four London Blasts Kill 40, Injure 300 Let us all then pray and hope and work for that day when human beings will learn to stop resolving issues, or forcing their believes and ways of life on others, by means of violence - no matter how good the intentions or the motive, VIOLENCE is always an act of Barbarians. And one barbaric act invariably draws other barbaric acts in its wake. For the victims, whether you are hit by flying shrapnel from a suicide bomber, or smart bombs from high-flying ace pilots in supersonic jets, or sprayed with bullets by soldiers in body armors from the inside of an armored vehicle, what is the difference? Val Ojo -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of James Ololo Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 12:14 PM To: Dr. Valentine Ojo; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; AbujaNig; Naijanet; Pan-Africanist Forum; TalkNigeria Subject: [TalkNigeria] RE: Four London Blasts Kill 40, Injure 300 Yes oga Val, My heart extends to the people of Iraq, Palestine, Congo and all nations of the world. My sympathy extends to every family and friends who'se robbed of a life like this barbaric act in London earlier today. -James -- --- Dr. Valentine Ojo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James: I hope you also have it in your heart to extend the same sentiments to the citizens of Baghdad, Fallujah, Ramala, and all the Iraqi cites, to quote you, are also innocent civilians...victimized and made to suffer for a crime they are not part of , and who have been subjected to this kind of tragedy everyday for the past 3 years, with no end in sight. Or do this people not grief the loss of lives of innocent victims who will be not be going back to their loved ones and homes everyday? Or do they maybe have none? Or is you grief and sympathy reserved for only one side? It is indeed a dark day in London today, but each day has been dark days in these Iraqi cities for the past three years...what did their citizens do? How about the victims of the on-going proxy massacres in the Congo Basin? Val Ojo -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Ololo Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 11:44 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; AbujaNig; Naijanet; Pan-Africanist Forum; TalkNigeria Subject: [Naijanet] Four London Blasts Kill 40, Injure 300 Dea Mwananchi, On behalf of my family and I, may the victims, their families and friends accept our sincere sympathy on this dark day in London. Again, we have seen how innocent civilians are victimized and made to suffer for a crime they are not part of. At this difficult moment, I strongly stand behind Londoners and the people of Great Britain as they grief the loss of lives of innocent victims who will be not be going back to their loved ones and homes tonight. Peace, -James --- Dr. Valentine Ojo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Four London Blasts Kill 40, Injure 300 July 07, 2005 9:31 AM EDT LONDON - Four blasts rocked the London subway and tore open a packed double-decker bus during the morning rush hour Thursday, sending bloodied victims fleeing after what a shaken Prime Minister Tony Blair called barbaric terrorist attacks. Two U.S. law enforcement officials said at least 40 people were killed and London hospitals reported more than 350 wounded. A senior police official confirmed at least 33 deaths killed in the subway blasts. Blair said the terrorist attacks were clearly designed to coincide with the G-8 summit opening in Gleneagles, Scotland. They also came a day after London won the bid to host the 2012 Olympics. A group calling itself The Secret Organization of al-Qaida in Europe claimed responsibility. The explosions hit three subway stations and a double-decker bus in rapid succession between 8:30 and 9:30 a.m. local time. Implementing an emergency plan, authorities immediately shut down the subway and bus
[Ugnet] [abujaNig] Re: [Mwananchi] RE: African leaders on verge of making history
Dr Ojjo Have you ever thanked them for the food they gave your ancestors in ships as slaves? Em Toronto The Mulindwas Communication Group With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy Groupe de communication Mulindwas avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie - Original Message - From: Dr. Valentine Ojo To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: TalkNigeria ; Pan-Africanist Forum ; Naijanet ; AbujaNig Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2005 3:24 PM Subject: [Mwananchi] RE: African leaders on verge of making history Ed: And because Pat Anderson is White though , she gets special privileges, right? Are we back in the days of apartheid South Africa, Verwoerd, Ian Smith, Botha, North and South Rhodesia, and all those friendly whites who came to bring us savages, civilization and slavery? Jumping Jesus Christ, talk of Africans with the mentality of kitchen kaffirs! And because Patricia Anderson is white, so what? What has she lost, and what is she searching for on an ALL BLACK forum? Or is Mwnanachi also an English, or maybe even a white word? Ed, please help me out here.I am confused. These our white lovers who love Africans more than they love even their own people are killing me! Val Ojo -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Edward Mulindwa Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2005 12:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Mwananchi] African leaders on verge of making history James Pat Anderson is White though Em Toronto The Mulindwas Communication Group With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy Groupe de communication Mulindwas avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie - Original Message - From: James Ololo To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2005 6:15 AM Subject: [Mwananchi] African leaders on verge of making history Ndugu Chifu, I am sorry to inform you that in order for compete freedom of speech to continue on this forum, you must stay clear of substantiating any words written by another member. Patricia is not new to Mwananchi and she is entitled to the same freedom like all of us, therefore, let Oga Val attack her in whichever way he feels right. You can agree with Patricia but you cannot fire shots for her. She should fire her own missiles, she is not handicaped is she? I hope I have not offended anyone with these words. Freedom of speech opinion and thought must come to Africa. -James - --- Dr. Valentine Ojo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And by the way, Ndugu Chifu wa Malindi, the newly certified psychiatrist of Lower Manhattan, who exactly has mental comprehension problem here, yourself or myself? This is what Mrs. Patricia Anderson wrote, and I quote: He [George Ayittey] reminded us that London has many Africans living there and some could have been in the bomb attacks, a point I agreed with. He will be reporting further next week. - Pat. So, Ndugu Chifu, when you claim you read every post here but getting back to the point, how exactly is she referring to all those who were affected black or white, here in this passage? Once again I ask, Ndugu Chifu: Who has mental comprehension problem here? Val Ojo -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Chifu Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2005 2:49 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Mwananchi] Re: African leaders on verge of making history --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dr. Valentine Ojo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did Mrs. Patricia Anderson not let us know that she was mourning only the Africans who must have been among the victims, and not her fellow Britons who must also have been among them? Val Ojo * Val, Seems you have mental comprehension problem. Inspite of my busy 'rat race' world in Manhattan I can assure you that I read every post here but getting back to the point she was referring to all those who were affected black or white. At times you just want the whole world to think you are right even the facts prove you are wrong. For once can you accept that you erred!! I have done so many times brother!!! I forgot you are immortal!! Best, Chifu Mwananchi is an open forum that discusses/updates you on the latest news in Africa. It is a group that is made up of 900 members worldwide. To join it simply go to http://www.yahoogroups.com/group/mwananchi ? LSpots keywords ?? HM ADS ? _ YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS * Visit your group Mwananchi
[Ugnet] [abujaNig] The CUTLASS in Edinburgh--- And Me
Africans Irrespective Pat Anderson's redundancy, there is a lesson we need to pick up from here. And I am going to digress a little and comment on the G8 and Blair's let us help Africa crap, for it really fits in Pat Anderson's actions in this forum. For a long time now the discussion has been to find a way to help Africa, debt relief as another suggestion, in fact Chifu Wa Malindi even attacked me for I wrote a piece in Monitor of Uganda opposing debt relief for Africa and Uganda to be specific. But I want us to back off a little and listen very carefully to the Tony Blair's issue. Blair wants the developed nations to double their assistance to Africa. He needs to see a debt relief for Africa too. In fact Canada is being asked to spend a whopping 7% of our GDP to poor nations. All that sounds good, but do you realize that Tony Blair is actually the worst enemy of Africa? For if Blair wanted to help Africa he should have started in London, Tony should go to the safes of the Lords in London, and get out what was looted in Africa. Nations wonder why they have to help Africa when it is UK looting it the most. In fact one officer I talked to in Ottawa stated it perfectly, UK feeds on her kid (Africa) If the kid is not well fade and is malnourished why should we now come in? If money stolen from Nigeria can be frozen in Europe, why can't what was stolen in Africa by the British be frozen and given back to the original owners? As Tony Blair was speaking in Scotland, British companies were not only mining in The Democratic Republic of Congo, but they were arming the fighters as well. My MP in Ottawa is not going to vote for the legislation to send more money to Africa because we as immigrants are tired to have our continent used as a tool. I read all speeches Tony Blair made in Scotland and I see no where did he cry about arms sold into Africa. So I understand Tony Blair to say, Africa needs a debt relief for the bastards have over paid the debt any ways through their minerals and the population that has died in our hands. But no he cannot say that for then the Chifu Wa Malindis of today will not clap hands. Ayitey is a man who tells us daily that Africa's solution is in Africa, we need good leadership and we need to stop corruption. Why was it important for him to go to UK if the heads of state that were in Scotland do not control our destiny? And why is it important for Pat Anderson to tell us where Ayiteey ate break fast? And to our fellow African Mwananchi members, who are based in Africa and especially those that have not been here let me mention some few lines to you 1) New York and Washington are the most expensive towns to live in here, and the majority of Africans living in them are on fundraising base. Be very careful in this chat room and you will know who is in New York or Washington, for if you do not repeat the chorus as it is you will get no funding from no where. And if you as an African has a White person in your back pack you are now fundraising good. Pat Anderson had to be The official Ayittey spokes person this G8. Now all that is very good until when you have to sell your own continent and people for the chorus to sell. I have just watched a Canadian volunteer group helping kids in Kenya and my first question was very simple, why are these kids this way? Is asking for AID becoming a profession in Kenya? 2) The people Ayittey mate as reported by his master, are not that important. Yes they are important in their jobs but meeting them does not mean Ayittey is an angel, so let us take Pat Anderson's posting in perspective. When the G8 was being planned as all G8 meetings, a program is set out for people to meet these men/women. I happen to be one of the people who get these notices many times, and if I wanted to go I surely would have gone. But let me as well say this, if I or any one here wants to meet Wolfwitz it does not take a Professor to fly from Washington to UK to meet him, you go to his office and make an appointment and you will see him. The way these nations run if you need George Bush to know your story it can reach his assistant in 30 seconds. The question is very simple what does he do with it. Last year I wanted to see The Canadian Prime Minister, who was Chrétien. I called his office in Ottawa they told me where he was which was in Burnaby BC, I requested for an appointment to see him. And the time they had was 5 or 6 hours of the flight to reach BC. I arrived and I saw him. Let Pat Anderson not mislead you that meeting Wolfowitz and Geldoff is the base holding the sun in the skys. That is utter nonsense. Any body can meet them, in fact both men are useless Wolfwitz is temporarily holding the post, Geldoff was rebuffed by our prime minister here as being mouthy. The problem here is very simple, when you think Pat Anderson has posted something outrageously silly, she keeps on posting. Em Toronto The
